Halloween Fundraiser

This past October, our CAS group organized a fundraiser for Growing Opportunities International, to raise money for the construction of an orphanage in Tanzania. Overall, my role was to help in the organization process and publicity campaign. Further, I provided a large degree of the decorations used to furnish our school for the event, as we were going for a "haunted school" concept. Despite our attempts of publicize this event at the elementary schools, the actual event was somewhat of a failure (if it hadn't been for the teachers children, there would have been one or two people there). Nevertheless, one of the things that I recall vividly was the faces of the children as they went through the various events that we had on. That in itself, at least compensated for the financial failure of the event. One lesson, though, was valuable out of all of this and that was the importance of advertising. It doesn't matter how good an event you have, if no one knows about it, then its as though you didn't have one at all. For future events, more emphasis will have to be placed on this particular aspect more than anything else.